From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,PP_MIME_FAKE_ASCII_TEXT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,34e6505a3616fb21 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-03-20 02:50:06 PST Path: supernews.google.com!sn-xit-03!supernews.com!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!enst!enst.fr!not-for-mail From: Wilhelm.Spickermann@t-online.de (Wilhelm Spickermann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: calander package - Proposal for dates Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:30:55 +0100 (CET) Organization: ENST, France Sender: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: marvin.enst.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: avanie.enst.fr 985085062 12472 137.194.161.2 (20 Mar 2001 10:44:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@enst.fr NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:44:22 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Return-Path: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) In-Reply-To: <9909kc$d7v$1@news.huji.ac.il> X-Sender: 0211750756-0001@t-dialin.net Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: comp.lang.ada mail<->news gateway List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Errors-To: comp.lang.ada-admin@ada.eu.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org Xref: supernews.google.com comp.lang.ada:5889 Date: 2001-03-20T07:30:55+01:00 On 17-Mar-01 Ehud Lamm wrote: ... > One little thing that seems to be forgotten all too often is that > defining > weekdays, you must remember that in some parts of the world the first > work > day is Sunday, and not Monday... BTW - it�s not a regional problem. It is a common jewish and christian practice to regard sunday as the first day of the week - as opposed to ISO 8601. My wife expects every calendar program to be at least switchable to sunday as first day whereas I prefer Monday in the leftmost column (and we are living in the same part of the world :-) ) Wilhelm